viperish

English

Etymology

From viper +‎ -ish.

Adjective

viperish (comparative more viperish, superlative most viperish)

1. In the manner of a viper.
2. spiteful; treacherous
   • 2023 April 10, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).

Derived terms

• viperishly
• viperishness

Translations

spiteful; treacherous

• German: gehässig (de), giftig (de), niederträchtig (de)